DIE ÖSTERREICHISCHE BIBLIOTHEKENVERBUND UND SERVICE GMBH THE AUSTRIAN LIBRARY NETWORK - OVERVIEW AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS WOLFGANG HAMEDINGER TOWARDS THE FUTURE EUROPEAN CONSORTIA AND THE NEXT GENERATION LIBRARY SYSTEMS KOBV-WORKSHOP 11. SEPTEMBER 2013
The Austrian Library Network: A short history No clear founding date, but some milestones 1974 Central planning office founded 1978 Development of first software product for circulation used by more then one library 1984 First central catalogue of journals ( Österreichische Zeitschriftendatenbank ) 1987 BIBOS 2: Library management system based on central catalogue aimes integrated library system Procurement process 1997 ended up with Aleph 500 Operational January 11 1999 Functional base of almost all services Increase in functionality and members Lots of cooperation beyond just Aleph 2
The Austrian Library Network: Participants 67 voting members of the General Assembly representing 86 single institutions Starting with core of Austrian National Library 18 (now 21) Universities Austrian Academy of Sciences Verbund für Bildung und Kultur (Education of teachers) Additional members are from different types of scientific libraries Research Administrative Governmental 3
The Austrian Library Network: Organisation Based on the law about the Central Office: Die Österreichische Bibliothekenverbund und Service Gesellschaft m.b.h. (OBVSG) Defined services for member institutions by law Membership is voluntary for over 10 years now OBVSG Independent of any member of the network Represents the network Provides and develops services Tries to watch innovative trends and technologies Rather strong position as an executive body General assembly Every member represented, voting weight according to its size Defined working groups (especially for strategic discussions) Strategic decisions OBVSG can veto decisions under defined circumstances Periodic meetings of system librarians/administrators and local system responsibles Homogenity is a big surplus for the cooperation within the network 4
The Austrian Library Network: Data architecture [1] Central system Z39.50-Quellen Partnerverbünde in DE Datenbezug Deutsche Nationalbibliothek BIB Titeldaten ITM Exemplardaten HOL - Zeitschriftenbestände Fremddaten Normdaten ZDBdaten HOL BIB ITM Aleph 500 Z e n t r a l s y s t e m 5
The Austrian Library Network: Data architecture [2] Local systems Z39.50-Quellen Partnerverbünde in DE Datenbezug Deutsche Nationalbibliothek BIB Titeldaten ITM Exemplardaten HOL - Zeitschriftenbestände Fremddaten Normdaten ZDBdaten HOL BIB ITM Aleph 500 Z e n t r a l s y s t e m HOL SE BIB A D M ITM Aleph 500 [Große Bibliotheken] HOL-1 HOL-2 SE-1 BIB-1 BIB-2 BIB-n A D M Aleph-Sharing [Kleine Bibl. OBVSG] L o k a l s y s t e m e ITM-1 ITM-2 ITM-n BIB ITM Alephino [Kleine Bibl. extern] 6
The Austrian Library Network: Data architecture [3] Replication Z39.50-Quellen Partnerverbünde in DE Datenbezug Deutsche Nationalbibliothek BIB Titeldaten ITM Exemplardaten HOL - Zeitschriftenbestände Fremddaten Normdaten ZDBdaten HOL BIB ITM Aleph 500 Z e n t r a l s y s t e m Online-Datenaustausch (Replikation) HOL SE BIB A D M ITM Aleph 500 [Große Bibliotheken] HOL-1 HOL-2 SE-1 BIB-1 BIB-2 BIB-n A D M Aleph-Sharing [Kleine Bibl. OBVSG] L o k a l s y s t e m e ITM-1 ITM-2 ITM-n BIB ITM Alephino [Kleine Bibl. extern] 7
The Austrian Library Network: Funding No central budgets for the whole network anymore OBVSG gets an amount of 1,72 Mio per year for defined basic services Amount stayed the same for 12 years now; was never changed University Libraries get their budget from the university Universities negotiate contracts with the ministry for periods of three years Contrary to DFG in Germany infrastructur is not funded by research promotion agencies in Austria Every project has to be discussed and economically evaluated before realisation Help yourself, so helps you god 8
Main Step within the near future Full procurement on EU-level for the replacement of Aleph 500 is in preparation Open for cloud solutions and classical architectures Flexible procedure chosen ( Verhandlungsverfahren mit vorheriger Bekanntmachung ) OBVSG and a number of network members as official clients Aim: replacement for Aleph 500 with all necessary functionalities Decision of the General Assembly to advice members for further providing their staff for examination of the offered systems Preparations nearly finished, Publication planned within the 4th quarter of 2013 9